Tomato questions
With
tomato season officially underway, we're
going to have to make some hard
decisions. Like --- now that our happy plants reach over my head,
do I keep tying them up and harvest with a
stepladder or do I let the plants hang
down?
Or, how about this ---
do we plan ahead for a future blight year and can some tomatoes
as well as freezing them?
And --- what do I do
with that first roma when it doesn't have enough sisters to make into
sauce?
This week's lunchtime
series doesn't actually answer any of those
questions, but it does explore some of the cosmetic problems you might
run into while wandering through your tomato patch. I mentioned
in an earlier comment that orange
tomatoes are caused by high heat, and the truth is that
tomatoes will complain about lots of environmental variations in
several different ways.
I subscribe to the "eat
it or give it to the chickens" school of
thought, so discussing vegetable cosmetics is out of the
ordinary. But I recently realized that beginning gardeners might
not know the difference between pissy tomato plants upset by two days
without adequate water and blighted tomatoes that are going to wipe out
your entire tomato garden. If that describes you, stay tuned for
a look at all of the tomato problems that aren't contagious and can simply be
cut out of the ripe fruit.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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